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Summary Common sign and symptoms of disease conditions.
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COMMAN SIGN AND SYMPTOMS Pulmonary Tuberculosis (PTB) – low-grade afternoon fever.
Pneumonia – rust-colored sputum.
Asthma – wheezing on expiration
Emphysema – barrel chest
Kawasaki Syndrome – strawberry tongue.
Pernicious Anemia – red beefy tongue.
Cholera dehydration). -rice-watery stool and washer woman’s hands
(wrinkled hands from
Down syndrome – protruding tongue.
Malaria-stepladder like fever with chills.
Typhoid – rose spots in the abdomen.
Dengue -fever, rash, and headache. Positive Herman’s sign.
Diphtheria- pseudomembrane formation.
Measles-Koplik’s spots (clustered white lesions on buccal mucosa).
Systemic Lupus Erythematosus – butterfly rash.
Leprosy-leonine facies (thickened folded facial skin).
Bulimia-chipmunk facies (parotid gland swelling).
Appendicitis – rebound tenderness at McBurney’s point. Rovsing’s sign
(palpation of LLQ elicits pain in RLQ). Psoas sign (pain from flexing the
thigh to the hip).
Meningitis – Kernig’s sign (stiffness of hamstrings causing inability to
straighten the leg when the hip is flexed to 90 degrees), Brudzinski’s
sign (forced flexion of the neck elicits a reflex flexion of the hips).
Tetany-hypocalcemia, [+] Trousseau’s sign; Chvostek sign.
Tetanus – Risus sardonicus or rictus grin.
Pancreatitis-Cullen’s sign (ecchymosis of the umbilicus), Grey Turner’s:
(bruising of the flank).
Pyloric Stenosis-olive like mass.
Patent Ductus Arteriosus – washing machine-like murmur.
Addison’s disease – bronze-like skin pigmentation.
Cushing’s Syndrome-moon face appearance and buffalo hump.
Grave’s Disease (Hyperthyroidism) – Exophthalmos (bulging of the eye
Intussusception-Sausage-shaped mass.
Multiple Sclerosis – Charcot’s Triad: nystagmus, intention tremor
Myasthenia Gravis-descending muscle weakness, ptosis (drooping of
Eyelids)
Guillain-Barre Syndrome – ascending muscles weakness.
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